Victorian Heritage Register Data Sheets for Places on the Victorian Heritage Register SEPTEMBER 2013 Table of Contents Heritage Overlay Address Page Number Dhurringile 1 HO12 Dhurringile Homestead, 870 Murchison-Tatura Road, Dhurringile 1 HO55 Number One Internment Camp, 1320 Stewart Road, Dhurringile 4 Kialla 6 HO22 Calder Woodburn Memorial Avenue, Goulburn Valley Highway, Kialla, 6 Kialla West and Arcadia Murchison 8 HO58 Day’s Flour Mill Complex, 75 Day Road, Murchison 8 HO60 Gregory’s Bridge Hotel, 10 High Road, Murchison 10 Shepparton 12 HO150 Bangerang Cultural Centre, Parkside Gardens, 45 Parkside Drive, 12 Shepparton Victorian Heritage Database place details - 2/9/2013 DHURRINGILE Location: 870 MURCHISON-TATURA ROAD MURCHISON, Greater Shepparton City Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) Number: H1554 Listing Authority: VHR Extent of Registration: Amendment of Register of Government Buildings Rodney Shire H.M. Prison, Dhurringile, Murchison-Tatura Road, Murchison. [Victoria Government Gazette No. G39 12 October 1988 p.3093] Transferred to the Victorian Heritage Register 23 May 1998 (2 years after the proclamation of the Heritage Act 1995 pursuant to the transitional provisions of the Act) Statement of Significance: Dhurringile, consisting of a two-storeyed brick residenceand gatehouse, brick stables and timber shearing shed, was constructed by James Winter in 1876-77. John [Jock] Winter, the son of a blacksmith, arrived in Australia with his family from Scotland in 1841 and settled near Ballarat. The discovery of gold on their property transformed the life of the family and provided the basis for sizeable investment in large pastoral areas throughout northern Victoria. Three of the four Winter sons who had taken up large areas of land in the Goulburn Valley each constructed a substantial home on their land, the grandest of them being Noorilim [VHR H0297], built by William Winter (later Winter-Irving) in 1878-79 and Dhurringhile. After the great Goulburn flood of 1870 had washed away his original wooden homestead, James Winter 1 selected a site away from the river for the construction of a huge new towered brick mansion which he named Dhurringile. The mansion was designed by Lloyd Tayler and Wyatt, one of Melbourne's most prominent architectural firms. The style of Dhurringile suggests that it was probably designed by Frederick Wyatt as Lloyd Tayler, the more well known of the two, was absent from his practice from January 1875 to May 1877 on an extended visit to England. The homestead also had extensive stabling, a shearing shed, and other outbuildings, and a manager's residence and stabling some distance from the house which may predate the mansion as James Winter had taken up residence there by 1875.The shearing shed was reputed to be one of the largest in Victoria. Although often absent from his country property, James Winter was active in local community affairs and through his interest in agricultural innovation, markedly increased the stock carrying capacity of his property. He bred prize-winning sheep, was a founding member of the Northeastern Pastoral and Agricultural Society and served as councillor and later President of the Shire of Waranga in 1873. James Winter died in 1885 but Dhurringile stayed in the ownership of the Winter family until 1907. Dhurringile passed through a number of hands before being purchased in December 1925 by Vincent Vernon Hart. It appears that Dhurringile had been vacant for many years and remained unoccupied while in Hart's ownership. In 1939, the Commonwealth government negotiated with Hart to rent the property for use as an internment camp for German and Italian aliens. Internees were held at Dhurringile until transferred to other camps early in 1940 and by March 1940, the Department of the Interior had vacated the property. in 1941, Dhurringile was taken up by the army for use as a Prisoner of War Camp for Germans captured in the Middle East. The Murchison camp consisted of five compounds including the Dhurringile homestead which was intended for German officers who were to be given more favourable treatment than other ranks. In July 1945, the German prisoners were transferred to other sites and at the end of the war, the site was cleared of huts and all other military buildings. In 1947, Dhurringile was purchased by the Presbyterian Church for use as a home for migrant boys from the United Kingdom whose fathers had died during the war. The intention was to train the boys in farming methods to prepare them for employment. By this time the homestead was in a deteriorating condition and substantial repairs and alterations were needed. The Dhurringile Rural Training Farm did not open until 13 June 1951. Life in the home was spartan, difficulties were encountered in recruiting boys from Scotland and the scheme had limited success. The Commonwealth Government continued to provide increasing financial support to the home in accordance with a child migrant policy to promote British migration, but difficulties persisted and a decision was made in 1964 to close the Dhurringile Rural Training Farm. In March 1965, Dhurringile was purchased by Victorian Government Penal Department for use in the rehabilitation of alcoholic prisoners. The farm was refenced and the agricultural part of the property rehabilitated to provide a level of self-support. Prisoners provided labour for extensive repair and alteration works at the mansion. Dhurringile remains a minimum security prison, but the house itself accommodates no prisoners and has undergone some restoration and been adapted for use as a training centre. Dhurringile is of architectural, historical and social significance to the State of Victoria. Dhurringile is of architectural significance as one of Victoria's grandest homesteads and a fine example of the Victorian Italianate style. It is significant as a rare work of the short-lived but prominent architectural partnership of Lloyd Tayler and Wyatt. Dhurringile is significant as an early demonstration of the rise of the red face brick aesthetic which arose as a reaction to the predominant use of stucco in the previous decades. Dhurringile and its outbuildings are of historical significance as an important example of a substantial homestead built on the proceeds of gold discoveries and subsequent pastoral wealth. It is significant for its associations with its owner John Winter and the prominent Winter and Winter-Irving families who were among the largest pastoral landholders in Victoria. Dhurringile is of historical and social significance for its use as an internment and World War Two prisoner of war camp which reflects an aspect of Australian life which is not well known. Its subsequent use by the Presbyterian Church as a rural training centre for migrant boys from the United Kingdom is a significant association with the perceived need to populate Australia with migrants of Anglo-Celtic background. It is also significant for its later use as a rehabilitation centre for prisoners with alcohol or drug dependent dependency. [Online data upgrade project 2005] . 2 Heritage Study Year Construction Started 1877 Architect / Designer Tayler & Wyatt Architectural Style Victorian Period (1851-1901) Italianate Heritage Act Categories Heritage place Municipality GREATER SHEPPARTON CITY Other names DHURRINGILE RURAL TRAINING FARM, H.M. DHURRINGILE PRISON, H.M.REHABILITATION CENTRE DHURRINGILE, PRESBYTERIAN BOYS HOME DHURRINGILE History 3 Victorian Heritage Database place details - 2/9/2013 NUMBER ONE INTERNMENT CAMP Location: 1320 STEWART ROAD and 1275 CRAWFORD ROAD DHURRINGILE, GREATER SHEPPARTON CITY Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) Number: H2048 Listing Authority: VHR Extent of Registration: 1. All of the land marked L1 on Diagram 2048 held by the Executive Director being all of the land described in Certificate of Title Volume 9528 Folio 467. 2. All of the above and below ground archaeological relics on the registered land including (but not limited to): Cafe Welblech, the skittle alley, the Cell building, the drainage channels, and the garden beds and garden path remnants. Statement of Significance: Number One Internment Camp is located on the eastern side of Waranga Reservoir, 20 kms south of Tatura. It was Australia's first purpose built internment camp for housing enemy aliens and/or prisoners of war. Camp 1 was established in 1940 and was closed in 1947. The camp housed male civilian internees, first of German origin and later of Italian origin who had been resident in Australia. The camp is a superb archaeological site with most of its features such as huts, ablution blocks, kitchens, tennis courts, gardens, ponds, skittle alley, café, hall, sewerage works and security fencing easily recognised. Number One Internment Camp is of historic, cultural, social and archaeological significance to the State of Victoria. 4 Number One Internment Camp is historically significant for its association with the Australian internment policy of the first half of the twentieth century. Camp 1 was the first of eighteen purpose-built camps, a number of which were constructed in the Goulburn Valley. Crucial to the significance of the camp is its capacity to demonstrate to all visitors a direct impact of World War II on Australia. Although many of the internees were Australian residents, they were thought to be a potential security risk to the nation because of the country of their birth or their affiliations. The ruins and the landscape illustrate clearly the physical environment faced by internees and the organisational arrangements of World War II internment camp. Number One Internment Camp is historically significant due to the impact it had on persons of German origin in Victoria. Germans represented one of the major national groups in the early waves of immigration to Australia. Although numerically fewer than British or Irish settlers, they nevertheless had a substantial impact in forming the Australian society. Internment demonstrated to them that they were not considered a part of Australian society, which was at that time dominated by British values and politics.